Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tristan: Later. Vickers has other ideas: he does not covet the role of Heldentenor. "I have no intention," says he, "of becoming a Wagner specialist. I love Wagner, but I want to sing for 25 years, not ten years. I want to keep my Italian roles, because Italian caresses the voice while German exploits it." Moreover, Vickers refuses to jump into the role of Tristan, as his public and press have urged him to. No dramatic tenor, he reasons, really reaches vocal maturity until he is 38 or 39, and for a part as taxing as Tristan, it takes...
...sing "God bless the Vatican...
...Long Song. One day last August, Morrison was picked up for burglary, and the cops who locked him up were not in his tidy plan of loot and split. Faced with a stiff sentence, he decided to sing. Last week the good Chicago cops were rounding up the bad ones ; all over town charges of police crime bubbled up. In the burgeoning scandal, 17 policemen were arrested on criminal charges, and upwards of 130 (of a police force of 11,200) were haled into special offices in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel to take lie-detector tests. The total...
When Makeba sings or talks in her native Xosa dialect, its expressive staccato clicks sound like the popping of champagne corks. Though she tries many styles, she never sings the Afrikaaner songs of white South Africa ("When Afrikaaners sing in my language," she says, "then I will sing in theirs"). But whatever mood she assumes, Miriam Makeba maintains a simple and primitive stoicism that sets her sharply apart from the emotional, often artificial style of American Negro singers...
...Show Went On. As remarkable as anything about Makeba is the fact that, however arresting her talent, she managed to sing her way out of the anonymity of South African Negro life. Helping her mother in various servants' jobs around Johannesburg, Miriam sang in school, at weddings and funerals. If she could get close to a radio, she tuned in the native songs played on Johannesburg radio stations. "Anyone who sings, makes music." says she, "as long as it's good...